Friendship Quotations

The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years.

In my public service, I treasure my friendship with law enforcement officers. I admire what they do and support them in every aspect of their job. I have always looked upon law enforcement officers as my friends.

Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets.

That was the day I began cutting classes and returning to TV tapings; it ultimately led to a friendship with Johnny O, and an increasing fascination and respect for what he did.

As far as an actor-director connection, I think those can develop, and when they do, they're really great, and you just cultivate it like you would any relationship or friendship. If you find that something special, it helps down the line when you want to do more projects with each other.

The monster was the best friend I ever had.

Yeah, I miss it. You don't just break off a friendship you've had with a sport, and with all those you've met all over the country. We've got some friends, some very close friends, and you just sit back and think how fortunate you were having a career like that. And, actually, there's nothing in the game of baseball that hasn't happened to me.

She's always there for me when I need her; She's my best friend; she's just my everything.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States; they have a great feeling of friendship. That is solid. But in the opposition and in the political arena I often find criticism of the closeness of relations with the United States. That is a reality.

I think 'Pretty Little Liars' is going to be hugely popular for adults, for kids, for girls, for guys, you know, something for everyone to look at, and the stories are going to be great. There's suspense every week. The friendship is really fun to watch. I think it's going to have something for everybody.

To some it may be a thrill to be known, to me it's a thrill to start a friendship even up.

Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light.

The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Very different from eros is philia, a serene love much more akin to friendship, with its reciprocal kindnesses. You love each other for the happy experiences and pleasures you share.

When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned it, because he didn't win it because of his friendship with the writers. I guess in that way, I'm proud to be in this company that way.